Dr Danusha Jayawardana was a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health at the University of Queensland. Her interest areas are in health economics and applied microeconometrics, with a particular focus on mental health and wellbeing of women. During her time with CRE WaND Danusha’s work focused on the health economics program of the CRE.

Email: d.jayawardana@uq.edu.au

Dr Karin Hammarberg is a Registered Nurse with 20 years’ experience as clinical coordinator of IVF programs. She completed a PhD in 2006 is now Senior Research Fellow at Monash University and Senior Research Officer at the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority. Her main areas of research interests are women’s health; health promotion relating to fertility and preconception health; the psychosocial aspects of infertility and infertility treatment; and the health and development of children born as a result of assisted conception.

Email: karin.hammarberg@monash.edu

Dr Karin Stanzel (RN, RM, BHSs, MPH, PhD), is a Research Fellow at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. Dr Stanzel sees equality and equity for women as one of the most important global health issues and believes that collaboration is key. Her PhD examined the health literacy and health care needs in midlife among migrant women from low and middle income countries. Dr Stanzel’s work with CRE WaND focuses on the translation of the Centre’s research findings.

Email: karin.stanzel@monash.edu

Dr Mridula Bandyopadhyay is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Her PhD in Public Health focused on how social determinants of health influenced maternal and child health. She has worked in Australia and several Asia-Pacific countries in women’s health in various settings, including government, universities, and not-for-profit organisations. Her interests are in immigrant and refugee health, health services strengthening and delivery, and research translation and application.

Email: mridulab@unimelb.edu.au

Dr Zhiwei Xu was a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Queensland. His main research interests are the associations of sociodemographic factors, body weight and health behaviours, and reproductive factors with non-communicable diseases, and the impacts of climate change on human health.

Email: zhiwei.xu@uq.edu.au

Ms Reshika Chand was based at the Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre AWaGHR Centre) at the University of Queensland. She has a background in research support across various areas in health research. Reshika provided support in the day-to-day running of the CRE.

Email: r.chand@uq.edu.au